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Re: [OM] Backup - a cautionary tale

Subject: Re: [OM] Backup - a cautionary tale
From: Siddiq Siddiqui-Ali <muhammad.siddiqui-ali@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 22:08:59 +0000
Cc: Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx>
Hi Paul;

I have no problems trying to continue troubleshoot this (unless you don't want 
to) off-list. If you'd like, please email me directly at siddiq@xxxxxxx. I've 
worked my way through a fair share of TM issues starting with the first 
iteration.

Siddiq

On Nov 8, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Paul Braun <pbraun42@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am not.
> 
> 
> On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Siddiq Siddiqui-Ali <
> muhammad.siddiqui-ali@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> By any chance you running any sort of VM within Mac OS?
>> 
>> On Nov 8, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Andrew Fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Stupidly I assumed that it backed up your system and content and then
>> did incremental back-ups - that is, simply recorded any changes since the
>> original back-up in a dated file so that it could reconstruct the
>> situation. After all, the name implies that you can go back to where you
>> were at some point in the past, to recover a deleted file, for instance.
>> Total weekly back-ups when you've got over half a terrabyte on board are
>> just bloody useless! As I said, it jammed up on me inside a month when it
>> didn't have room to do the new one.
>>> Andrew Fildes
>>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> www.soultheft.com
>>> 
>>> Author/Publisher:
>>> The SLR Compendium:
>>> revised edition -
>>> http://blur.by/19Hb8or
>>> The TLR Compendium
>>> http://blur.by/1dQb0sG
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 09/11/2013, at 1:25 AM, Siddiq Siddiqui-Ali wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Time Machine will fill, to capacity, any drive you give it access to.
>> Once it's full, it starts deleting the oldest one, and so on. You can run
>> into issues when there are large breaks in time between backups, and the
>> new backup requires more space than what's available, and there aren't
>> enough backups for it to safely delete the oldest one.
>>> 
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